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Arpoador – or The Harpoon Thrower – is a stretch of land in the Southern part of Rio de Janeiro, like a border between Ipanema and Copacabana neighborhoods. The small rocky peninsula, which gives the area its name, overlooks the wonderful Leblon and Ipanema beaches and…

Ipanema neighborhood, one of the wealthiest and most expensive in Rio de Janeiro, has become famous when two of its residents, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes created the bossa nova ode to their bairro and to a local…